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Political Divisions
State Capital
India is a vast country, and its states and
Andhra Pradesh Hyderabad
territories can be divided into various zones
depending on their location. Th e given table Arunachal Pradesh Itanagar
shows these divisions. Assam Dispur

Bihar Patna
States and Union
Zone
Territories Chhattisgarh Raipur

Chandigarh, Haryana, Goa Panaji
North- Himachal Pradesh, Jammu
Gujarat Gandhinagar
western India and Kashmir, Ladakh and
Punjab Haryana Chandigarh

Himachal Pradesh Shimla
Northern Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and
India Uttarakhand Jharkhand Ranchi

Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Karnataka Bengaluru
Western India Daman and Diu, Gujarat,
Kerala Th iruvananthapuram
Maharashtra and Rajasthan
Madhya Pradesh Bhopal
Madhya Pradesh and
Central India Maharashtra Mumbai
Chhattisgarh
Manipur Imphal
Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha,
Eastern India Meghalaya Shillong
Sikkim and West Bengal
Mizoram Aizawl
Arunachal Pradesh, Assam,
North-eastern Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland Kohima
India Mizoram, Nagaland and
Odisha Bhubaneswar
Tripura
Punjab Chandigarh
Andhra Pradesh, Goa,
Southern Rajasthan Jaipur
Karnataka, Kerala,
India
Puducherry and Tamil Nadu Sikkim Gangtok

Tamil Nadu Chennai

Let’s Discuss Telangana Hyderabad

What is the McMahon Line? Where can we Tripura Agartala
fi nd this line?
Uttarakhand Dehradun

India has 28 states and 9 union territories. Uttar Pradesh Lucknow
Capital cities of the states have been given in
West Bengal Kolkata
the table.

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